PRINTER'S NO. 3115
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
658
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY NEILSON, BIZZARRO, HILL-EVANS, JONES, McNEILL,
SHUSTERMAN, HARKINS, KAUFFMAN, FREEMAN, READSHAW, SCHLEGEL
CULVER, TOEPEL, STAATS, LONGIETTI, SAINATO, SONNEY, RYAN,
MIZGORSKI, SCHLOSSBERG, WILLIAMS, PASHINSKI, BROWN,
MACKENZIE, THOMAS, SAYLOR, BERNSTINE, SCHMITT, HOWARD, KORTZ,
DONATUCCI, MENTZER, JOZWIAK, SOLOMON, MURT, BURNS,
YOUNGBLOOD, KIM, O'MARA, MILLARD, WARREN, DeLUCA, GOODMAN,
B. MILLER, CIRESI AND GAYDOS, JANUARY 13, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 13, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing January 27, 2020, as "International Holocaust
Remembrance Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic
persecution and murder of an estimated 17 million people by the
German Nazi regime, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler,
between 1933 and 1945; and
WHEREAS, Upon the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, the party
gave political expression to theories of racism against the
Jewish population and gained popularity by disseminating anti-
Jewish propaganda and ordering anti-Jewish economic boycotts,
staging book burnings and enacting discriminatory anti-Jewish
legislation such as the Nuremberg Laws which, in 1935, provided
the legal framework for the systemic persecution of the Jewish
people; and
WHEREAS, The Holocaust began with grievous abuses of power
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